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Fans of ABC's new sitcom Better With Youcan look forward to at least 13 episodes of the show, and perhaps a "back 9" order for a full 22 episodes this season. Although the show is well below ABC's average ratings for scripted shows, and I project renewal for next season no better than a toss up, it's doing far better relative to the rest of ABC's ratings (which are down vs. last season), than last season's Hank, which was pulled out of its timeslot after only five episodes.

Detroit 1-8-7 also looks likely to be cancelled by the end of this season, but ABC's announcement that it will hold rookie Body of Proof until mid-season all but guarantees that they will let the rest of their current ratings laggards run through their 13 episodes ordered instead of giving them the My Generation treatment.

No Ordinary Family ratings dipped in its second week, but it still is comfortably near the middle of ABC's ratings.

It's important to note that the Index (and prediction) for each show can change, particularly during the first several weeks of the season, both positively and negatively.

The Renew/Cancel Index is the ratio of a scripted show's new episode adults 18-49 ratings relative to the new episode ratings of the other scripted shows on its own network. It's calculated by dividing a show's new episode Live+Same Day adults 18-49 average rating by the Live+Same Day new episode average of all the new scripted show episodes on the show's own network. The network's average ratings in the calculation are not time weighted (ex. hour long shows are not weighted twice what 30 minute shows are).

(F) -Fridays: Shows airing on Fridays were renewed with significantly lower than average Indexes.